Tuesday, January 13, 2004

from now on, I'm filtering everything through tha Shizzolator before I read it. here's a sample- the quote from the NYT two posts ago:

Though a bane teachers of public speaking, muthas around da world fill pauses in they own languages as naturally as watermelons has seeds n' shit. In Britain they be like uh but spell that shiznit a, just as they pronounce a in butter n' shit.
The French be like something that sounds like euh, 'n Hebrew speakers be like ehhh, know what I'm sayin'? Serbs 'n Croats be like ovay, 'n da Turks be like mmmmm, know what I'm sayin'? The Japanese be like eto (eh-) 'n ano (ah-no), da Spanish este, 'n Mandarin speakers neige (NEH-guh) 'n jiege (JEH-guh) n' shit. In Dutch 'n German yo' ass can be like uh, um, mmm, know what I'm sayin'? In Swedish that shiznit's eh, ah, aah, m, mm, hmm, ooh, a 'n oh; in Norwegian, e, eh, m 'n hm, know what I'm sayin'?


I'd like to watch certain linguistic types squirm over this.